Knafeh

Name: Knafeh
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Saudi Arabian
Ingredients: 14 oz knafeh; ⅓ cup + 2 tsp unsalted butter; 1 pinch yellow food colouring; 1 cup mozzarella; ¼ cup cream cheese; 1 ½ cups milk; ¼ cup sugar; 2 tbsp corn flour; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup water; 1 tsp rose water; ½ tsp lemon juice

A Saudi Arabian dessert. Ready in about 55 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

50 minPrep (about)
5 minCook (about)
55 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 3 people +

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11 oz knafeh
¼ cup + 1 ½ tsp unsalted butter
1 pinch yellow food colouring
¾ cup mozzarella
3 tbsp cream cheese
1 ¼ cups milk
3 tbsp sugar
1 ½ tbsp corn flour Shopping tip: Cornstarch (UK: cornflour).
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup water
¾ tsp rose water
½ tsp lemon juice

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Take kanfhe in a bowl plus roughly cut them.
Pour melted butter, yellow food color.
Mix well with your hands.
Cream cheese, sugar, cornstarch well in a separate bowl mix milk.
Turn on the flame.
Boil your liquid, when it gets thick turn off your flame let it cool down little bit.
Add mozzarella in it.
Mix it well.
Make a base using half of the kanfhe in a dish, press it to level the dough well.
Pour the cheese mix on the top plus level it with a spoon.
Cover it using the other half of the kanfhe.
Put the dish in a heat the oven at 200 degree for around 20-25 minutes.
It's ready when is golden and crunchy in the surface.
Boil water in a pan plus dissolve sugar in it for 4–5 min.
OR cook it until slightly thicken.
Keep on stirring.
Add lemon juice with rose water.
Mix well.
Pour your syrup over your kunafa as soon as comes out of the oven.
Your kunafa is ready to serve.